Hidden Figures: Young Readers Edition

Author:

Margot Lee Shetterly

Page Count:

240

Book Summary:

In which four African-American women “human computers”’s story is finally told. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden work for NASA to calculate rocket launching numbers in the Civil Rights era, the Space Race, and The Cold War. They were pioneers for gender equality in science, follow their journey through this book.

Genre

Nonfiction

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